Magazine & Journal Articles
American Hospital Association magazine and journal articles.
This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating in the Brookings-Dartmouth Accountable Care Organization Collaborative identifies factors that sites perceived as enablers of successful ACO formation and performance. The four pilots varied in size,…
The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery model designed to improve care and lower costs, is proceeding rapidly. We build on our experience tracking early ACOs to identify the major factors—such as contract characteristics; structure,…
Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of care, such as accountable care organizations, that are intended to improve patients' health and well-being, mitigate the anticipated shortage in primary care providers, and bend the cost curve. In its…
Cigna's Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician groups and integrated delivery systems to improve the quality and efficiency of care for patients in commercial open-access benefit plans. Registered nurses who serve as care coordinators employed by…
Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more health care spending than others. By identifying the costliest physicians, health plans and Medicare hope to craft policy interventions to reduce total health care spending.
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, particularly as regards the specific risks and additional requirements for handovers involving vulnerable patients with limited language, cognitive and social resources. Objective: To explore handover…
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired conditions that were deemed preventable. The effect of this policy on rates of health care–associated infections is unknown. Methods
This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community-based setting.
Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, but the prevalence of diabetic complications are race-specific, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience if patients are invited to read their doctors' office notes.Objective: To evaluate the effect on doctors and patients of facilitating patient access to visit notes over secure Internet portals.…